Charles McClean

Charles McClean is an assistant professor of political science at Yale University. He conducts research in comparative politics with a focus on the politics of age and Japan. His work has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Nature Medicine, and other venues in political science and public policy. He is currently completing a book manuscript, Silver Democracy: Youth Representation in an Aging Japan, which explores the causes and consequences of youth underrepresentation in democracies. Previously, Dr. McClean was a Japan Foundation postdoctoral associate at Yale University’s Council on East Asian Studies, the Toyota visiting professor at the University of Michigan’s Center for Japanese Studies, and a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. He received a BA in international relations and Japanese from Tufts University, an MA in East Asian studies from Harvard University, and a PhD in political science from the University of California, San Diego. Prior to earning his PhD, he was a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fulbright fellow at Kobe University.